Medicaid insurance as primary payer predicts increased mortality after total hip replacement in the state inpatient databases of California, Florida and New York.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

To confirm the relationship between primary payer status as a predictor of increased perioperative risks and post-operative outcomes after total hip replacements.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Administrative database study using 2007-2011 data from California, Florida, and New York from the State Inpatient Databases (SID), Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Patients

295,572 patients age≥18years old who underwent total hip replacement with non-missing insurance data were collected, using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) diagnoses and procedures code (ICD-9-CM code 81.51).

Interventions

Patients underwent total hip replac

SUBMITTER: Xu HF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5698092 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature